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1.
Record Number:
14122
Author(s):
Franke, Birgit.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Female Role Models in Tapestries [The author briefly describes some of the tapestries owned or used by Margaret of York and her step-grand-daughter, Margaret of Austria. Frequently a series of tapestries celebrated heroic female figures like Esther, as savior of her people, and Abigail,
Source:
Women of Distinction: Margaret of York | Margaret of Austria. Edited by Dagmar Eichberger . Brepols, 2005. Pages 154 - 165.
Year of Publication:
2005.
2.
Record Number:
10748
Author(s):
Carroll, Jane L.
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Title :
Woven Devotions: Reform and Piety in Tapestries by Dominican Nuns [The author examines two tapestries that were produced by Dominican nuns in Germany. Both have small depictions of nuns working at looms in the margins. Carroll suggests that these images are part self-portraits, part devotional images, while also serving as exemplars of the Dominican reform for a "vita activa" that avoided luxury and sloth. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Saints, Sinners, and Sisters: Gender and Northern Art in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Edited by Jane L. Carroll and Alison G. Stewart . Ashgate, 2003. Pages 182 - 201.
Year of Publication:
2003.
3.
Record Number:
6240
Author(s):
Jenkens, A. Lawrence.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Caterina Piccolomini and the Palazzo delle Papesse in Siena [the author surveys the works that ten secular women commissioned from the painter Neri di Bicci between 1453 and 1475; the author analyzes the group of women in terms of marital status and social class and compares them with the men who requested art works in Neri's records; women ordered significantly more works for display in churches rather than in homes and their works were more costly with gilt and expensive colors].
Source:
Beyond Isabella: Secular Women Patrons of Art in Renaissance Italy. Edited by Sheryl E. Reiss and David G. Wilkins . Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, Volume 54. Truman State University Press, 2001. Pages 77 - 91.
Year of Publication:
2001.
4.
Record Number:
5970
Author(s):
Ketskemety, Esther.
Contributor(s):
Title :
The Court, the Forest, and the Symbolism of the "chasse" in "The Bear Hunt," a Late Fifteenth Century Burgundian Tapestry Design
Source:
Gender and Conflict in the Middle Ages. Gender and Medieval Studies Conference, York, January 5-7 2001. . 2001.
Year of Publication:
2001.
5.
Record Number:
4443
Author(s):
Monsour, Michele.
Contributor(s):
Title :
The Lady With the Unicorn
Source:
Gazette des Beaux-Arts , 134., 1571 (décembre 1999): Pages 237 - 254.
Year of Publication:
1999.
6.
Record Number:
2572
Author(s):
Gourlay, Kristina E.
Contributor(s):
Title :
La Dame à la Licorne: A Reinterpretation [argues that the tapestry series does not represent an allegory of the five senses but rather a romance between the maiden and the unicorn in order to celebrate or commemorate a marriage in the Le Viste family].
Source:
Gazette des Beaux-Arts , 130., 1544 (septembre 1997): Pages 47 - 72.
Year of Publication:
1997.
7.
Record Number:
484
Author(s):
Kelly, Susan.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Ubi unus clericus et Aelfgyva: Aelfgyva and the Bayeux Tapestry [Thirtieth International Congress on Medieval Studies, the Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, May 4-7, 1995. Thirtieth Symposium on the Sources of Anglo- Saxon Culture, co- sponsered by the Institute and CEMERS, Binghamton University. Sessio
Source:
Old English Newsletter , 28., 3 (Spring 1995):
Year of Publication:
1995.
8.
Record Number:
11171
Author(s):
Frese, Dolores Warwick.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Worda and Worca : "The Battle of Maldon" and the Lost Text of AElfflaed's Tapestry [The author trace similar narrative patterns in "The Battle of Maldon" and the Bayeux Tapestry. Frese suggests that they both may have drawn from AElfflaed's tapestry, described in the "Liber Eliensis," wihich celebrated the deeds of her husband, Byrhtnoth, who was killed at Maldon. Title note supplied by Feminae.]
Source:
Mediaevalia , 17., ( 1994): Pages 27 - 51. (1994 (for 1991))
Year of Publication:
1994.
9.
Record Number:
1556
Author(s):
Bolduc, Michelle
Contributor(s):
Title :
The Disruptive Discourse: Women in the Margins of the "Bayeux Tapestry" and the "Hours of Catherine de Clèves"
Source:
Romance Languages Annual , 6., ( 1994): Pages 18 - 22.
Year of Publication:
1994.
10.
Record Number:
12872
Author(s):
Williamson, Joan B.
Contributor(s):
Title :
The Lady with the Unicorn and the Mirror [The article discusses the relationship between literature and the Tapestries of the Lady with the Unicorn in the Musée de Cluny, Paris. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society , 3., ( 1990): Pages 213 - 225.
Year of Publication:
1990.
11.
Record Number:
28928
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Title :
Aelfgyva and a Cleric
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Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society , 3., ( 1990):
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12.
Record Number:
28933
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Title :
Lady and the Unicorn: Sight
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/The_Lady_and_the_unicorn_Sight.jpg/250px-The_Lady_and_the_unicorn_Sight.jpg
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Record Number:
28938
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Title :
Lady and the Unicorn: À Mon Seul Desir
Source:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/The_Lady_and_the_unicorn_Desire.jpg/250px-The_Lady_and_the_unicorn_Desire.jpg
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Record Number:
28944
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Title :
Figures in a Rose Garden
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Venus
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Record Number:
32299
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The Whore of Babylon Seated on the Waters
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Record Number:
37630
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Hestia Polyolbos tapestry
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Record Number:
43306
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Title :
A wild woman and two wild men with fantastic animals
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